Three years after the release of Khaos Legions and their most successful world tour to date, extreme metal icons ARCH ENEMY have started mixing their ninth studio album with Jens Bogren (OPETH, PARADISE LOST, KREATOR) at Fascination Street in Sweden.

Michael Amott (guitar) comments: “We’ve been producing ourselves, as we did on Khaos Legions. We have a clear vision of what we want Arch Enemy to sound like, and we can actually achieve it without the help of outside producers. We also have the advantage of having two talented sound engineers among our ranks in Daniel Erlandsson (drums) and Nick Cordle (guitar).

We’ve been tracking at a few different studios here in Sweden, the drums at Fascination Street Studio and guitars and bass in another room. We just finished vocals in a third studio with engineer Staffan Karlsson (Khaos Legions) and the mix and mastering will done by Jens Bogren at his Fascination Street mixing facility.

Musically, this album is going a few places we haven’t visited before. As our fans have come expect, our albums have all had their own vibe and War Eternal will leave its own mark. Lyrically it's a much more personal record, and I feel the songs have more dynamics and depth than ever before. The songs are loaded with strong and vicious metal, drenched in tons of melody and emotion. All the trademarks of Arch Enemy are present, just more in your face and turned up to 11."

The new album will be titled War Eternal. Michael explains: “A lot of times life is a struggle, a war against what I like to call ‘mental chains’ in society that try to prevent you from living life the way you want, that try to stop you from making your dreams come true. I have always resented that and I always will. The title sums up our collective attitude a band as well; stages will be destroyed, eardrums will bleed. There will be no choice. This, ladies and gentlemen, is War Eternal...”

Arch Enemy will debut new material on a short eastern European tour before the album is released in early June 2014; this trek will then be followed by an extensive run of European summer festivals, including Sweden Rock, Wacken and many more. A full headlining tour in North America, Europe, and the UK will take place in fall/winter 2014.

Arch Enemy will once again tour nearly every corner of this world to spread the sound of War Eternal.

Confirmed live dates:

May

23 - Turbohalle - Bucharest, Romania
24 - Metal Summer Festival - Istanbul, Turkey
25 - Mixtape 5 - Sofia, Bulgaria
27 - Majestic Music Club - Bratislava, Slovakia

June

7 - Sweden Rock Festival - Sölvesborg, Sweden
14 - Copenhell - Copenhagen, Denmark
15 - Nova Rock - Nickelsdorf, Austria
27 - Rock am Härtsfeldsee - Dischingen, Germany

July

11 - Rock Harz Open Air - Ballenstedt, Germany
12 - Masters Of Rock - Vizovice, Czech Republic
13 - Seven Festival - Wegorzewo, Poland
19 - Dong Open Air - Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany

August

1 - Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany
7 - Getaway Rock - Gävle, Sweden
8 - Leyendas Del Rock - Alicante, Spain
9 - Alcatraz Metal Festival - Kortrijk, Belgium
14 - Summer Breeze - Dinkelsbühl, Germany
17 - Alt-Fest - Kettering, UK

September

23 - Yunost' - Kiev, Ukraine
25 - Arena Hall - Krasnodar, Russia
27 - Glav Club - Moscow, Russia
28 - Zal Ozhidaniya - Saint Petersburg, Russia
30 - TBA - Novosibirsk, Russia

October

1 - TBA - Omsk, Russia
3 - Tele Club - Yekaterinburg, Russia